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grrrr! This is when my pesudo-feminist side gets angry! Stupid guys who ask why you know things, or when you ask them what they're learning in shiur they say "oh, you wouldn't get it, it's not for girls." Try me. I've gotten it from ordinairy folk as well though...when I got engaged a well meaning highschool colleague said "Oh my goodness- you found someone smarter than YOU!?!? He must be a crazy genius" No, Hon- he's not. It's called reading. Try it. Those guys though...grrr- to me it reeks of a bit of misogyny, like when men say "Oh you know, women read Mishpacha for the recipes..." (well those ARE the only well written articles in the whole magazin.....) oy don't get me started....

Ha! I can completely commiserate! I was once on a date with a guy who seriously couldn't handle the fact that I knew what he was talking about everytime he brought up some esoteric sefer or figure in Jewish History and what not. Clearly the women in his life don't know much more than how to cook up a potato kugel...I'm waiting for the guy who actually appreciates that I like to know and am interested in just about everything